Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1887-03-17
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Editor Gazette d. Journal: A reeent COM
munication from this town in the Morn
Jag NelDs urging the passage OF the bill
now pending before the Legislature seek.
ing enlarged and more thorough school
facilities for our town and vicinity at.
tracted my attention more from Its en-
| yenoned spirit and vituperation than
its terse style or logical statements.
Before referring to the same more
specially, allow me to say there is no one
/ that feels a more earnest and lasting
desire for the proper education OF all,
and especially those children whose
| parents are unable to contribute to the
same to any appreciable extent, or has
less sympathy for oligarchal associations
| which the writer of said communication
is pleased to term bloated wealth. But,
in dealing with all such subjects, is it not
lust. is il not equitable to consider
wen whether the want of o
more general education which all
know and feel to be the fact
results alone from the avarice and ex.
clusiyeness of bloated wealth. Are not
me parents of poor children equally re-
sponsible for much of the Ignorance
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| classes? And, further, does not the desire
q o, gain in parents as often deny the use
of school facilities, that are nearly always
! accessible to their children, as the ayarice
q of bloated wealth fail to contribute there
n tor The writer can wildly recall many
4 Instances where children Of proper school
: age have been compelled to foregc
Q the benefits of the schools accessible
e that thereby their parents might receive
d A small compensation for their services
"a One instance, which is indelibly inscribed
upon the tablet of the memory, where on,
% barely in his teens was denied the priv
d leUes of attending the public schools o
n those of a more select character, whicl
n were generously offered, because presen
d sire of gain predominated in the jude
u ment of his custodians over his futuf
IN advancement and intellectual vel
le | being, leaving him at the preseI
al not Justly classed with bloate
Wealti, sut Interior Intellectual abb
tiles And, although bloated wealt
20 II il selfish exciusiyeness would 70
n great r-s-n. de4y &c tAe -....~-s4- x ..4vs
IL less favored equal advantages in ever
- avenue of promotion in schools, associ
Iat tons or otherwise, should not those VII
re olaLnor SO loudly for enlarged school f
-al cilities be willing TO act equitably If the
,at ask equity
-" II property of all kinds is of right an
'ai Justice subject under our form of COVER
lily inept TO a tax for the proper maintenan'
i'll. Of schools properly arranged for the ed
"a cation of all classes upon terms of perfe
:" equality, then its eorrelative that 6
De Glasses should be compelled to avs
oh themselves Of the advantages resultii
ill therefrom should be equally true. E
= large, diffuse and disseminate your scho
%, facilities; make, if you will the childr
nd of all the wards of the State; enact col
he pulsory laws for levying and collect,
,os Of taxes ample therefor, making no d
tinction on account of wealth or famil
at the same time make them equally CO.
pulsory in regard to the attendance
those within proper age. If money a
the not brains should attempt to vii
in hold the proper support to scho'
~, thoroughly equipped and ample
~ the age, restrain them on
ton other hand, if those whose eve
can impulse should lead them to desire abe
mn everything else the advancement and b
= piness Of their children refuse to let tn
avail themselves of these privileges, &C
ed, pei them to do so. Holding up those v
lily have by accident, industry energy or
,eaI other cause accumulated more mol
than their nei9hors rs blonted veal
money without brains, may suit the r
poses of the advocates of the passage
the said bill but should not receive much
eft tention from those entrusted with the
NJ. actment of laws for our governm'
''OH Hear all things try all things, but
the fast unto that which assures the grea